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Summer Solstice

Summer Solstice Fair

The sun is shining, the Mognet is working again, and the summer solstice fair is here! The WRO hopes to makes this an annual thing, but this is the first year they're doing it. Everything you could ever want from a fair is here and open to the public.

*Fair Rides: Ferris wheels, a mini rollercoaster, that thing that looks like an octopus and spins around--the WRO spared no expense to make sure everyone would have fun here today. There's even a gravity ride that takes you up to the top of a pole and then drops you!

*Food: So much food. So much unhealthy food. Funnel cakes, hot dogs, burgers, ice cream, you name it. And it's all fairly cheap too, since the WRO promised to pay for half of what the merchants sell!

*Carnival Games: And most of them aren't even rigged! The Gold Saucer donated games for the fair and there are so many games. There's your standard shooting games, some basketball games, a dunk tank, hoop tosses, you name it. A few are rigged, though, so buy beware! There's also a few card tables set up in a tent for those who like their games a little less wild.

*Speed Dating: ...yeah, the WRO has no idea. This came with the Gold Saucer stuff, along with a Cait Sith and Moogle mascot pair that will coax anyone they can into sitting down and participating.

*Job Fair: With the influx of new arrivals, both native and Streamers, some employers see a golden opportunity to get some jobs filled! In one corner of the fair is another, mini-fair fill with tables and presentations on various workplaces: the WRO, ShinRa Tech, the volunteer emergency services of Edge, and the Highwind Air Taxi Service, just to name a few. Anyone of working age is welcome to wander in and have a look around.

Of course, the fair is taking up the entire center of Edge, so there's lots more to see and do!

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Terra turns to look at him again, taking note of how he looked. The dirt on his face and clothes but more importantly how bright his smile was. She had seen dirty children before, but rarely had they looked so happy upon first blush.

"A snack cake..?" She thinks about it a moment, then turns to purchase one for herself. "This is the first time I've ever had one.. of either, really. I don't know what deep frying is.."

Obviously it involved a vat of boiling oil. She wasn't quite sure how good for a person that was but she carefully blows on the fried snack cake, glancing at Sora.

"You promise to eat the rest of this for me if I don't like it..?" She had a feeling he wouldn't mind before she took a tentative bite.

...This was the strangest thing she'd ever eaten, she was certain.

Here is a Streamer who is not all wide-eyed wonder. No one had ever seen an elf before. Which meant the elf woman was getting a good number of stares.

She'd never been to a faire, either, and it's obvious in the way she holds herself: stiffly. She's also attracting a number of younglings who either want to take selfies with her (which, once Liadrin realizes this is something harmless, she allows), or poke at her ears. She isn't comfortable at all, but Liadrin allows it. Especially since some of the taller teens are within reach of them, after all.

That, and she's always had a soft spot for the younger set.

Liadrin does notice Vincent's gaze, but she can hardly challenge him over something she's doing herself (albeit for different reasons), so she simply gives him a nod.

Edited (great WoW retcon! armor, disappear!) 2016-06-23 16:56 (UTC)

To be fair, someone would probably be out of their mind if they started something with Winston. From appearance alone, he was well over 500 pounds and despite his friendly appearance, most people that weren't fascinated children were giving him a wide berth.

"Oh, I'm a scientist," said Winston, chuckling at his own private joke. "The name is Winston, and I'm a genetically modified gorilla."

Chews on a oreo dipped in peanut butter.

"From the moon."

This gorilla was also wearing a nice simple, if drab looking outfit too. Looking up at Liadrin, he shook his head. "I am from the Moon technically, but I live on the Earth."

Lets see if we can go two for two with the confused expressions.

"It's faire food," he said, holding up a bag of deep fried foods and his peanut butter. "Faire food is never healthy."

Fair rides/Wandering around

Look at all these rides Cloud was not about to try! Even just glancing at some of them was almost enough to give him a feeling of vertigo and threatening nausea. And sure, he could probably have taken something to stave that off and tried at least some of these, but... no.

So he was rather dodging around and through lines, head down... and there was a tiny chocobo plush peeking out of a pocket.

Job Fair

He knew he needed a job of some kind, but Cloud honestly had no idea what. He'd been thinking of what the older version of him, here, said he was doing, but while the idea was actually pretty attractive, that didn't really help Cloud right now.

So mostly he was frowning softly at each and every one of the tables, not quite ever getting close enough to any of them.

Cloud wasn't sure how he'd ended up here, and he'd been half-way out of the chair when someone sat down across from him. He froze, deliberating for a moment, and then, embarrassed to have been caught before he could leave, sank down in the chair again.

Peering at the young woman across from him, she looked... pretty flustered too, actually. At least he wasn't alone in that, then, though it wasn't really something he'd have wished for anyone else.

"... they caught you too, huh," Cloud said softly after a few moments of silence, spurred more by his own embarrassment than any desire or daring to actually say something.

[Cloud's attacking a rather large ice cream cone with determination when something black comes close to his feet - he steps away reflexively, but the half-melted piece he'd been intending to catch drops down on the ground instead, and Cloud stops and stares when the black thing stops as well to take advantage of the unexpected treat.

And is also joined by another.]

... couerls? [Blinking, he looks from the kits and then up, following their leashes to their... owner apparently. Cloud's pretty sure most people doesn't keep couerls as pets. He could only think of one person, really...]

[...a younger Cloud Strife. Interesting. Rufus wonders if he's recognized.]

Exotic, I know, but I love them. They're not my first kits.

Aren't they... difficult..? [Trailing off, Cloud frowned. Glanced from the coeurls up at the man and... Oh. No wonder he'd seemed vaguely familiar, even if the clothes and the hair is different and he is, of course, older.]

Um... Mr. Shinra.

[Cloud straightens up a little, reflexively, considering up until a short while ago Cloud was actually employed by the company. And while he's a bit more wary, now, considering what his older self told him what happened to him and Zack at Hojo's hands, and Hojo was ShinRa... that's all, really.]

[Some people look around at the mention of "Shinra". Rufus smiles a little and shake his head.]

Not Shinra, Gerad. I get that a lot, don't worry.

[His words say one thing, but his eyes flash dark and Elena, his Turk of the now, shifts ever so slightly closer. The hint is clear: play along.]

Marianne looked up at the giant ape thing that was looking over their paperwork. She remembered seeing him briefly in the WRO HQ after he was brought in from Mideel, but the Zack Fair and Cloud Strife doppelgangers were more important and so she'd lost track of the giant fucking gorilla.

It was impressive, losing track of a giant fucking gorilla.

"You gotta be fuckin' kidding me. You can talk? An' do science?"

[Hard to miss any of that, and Cloud narrows his eyes, staring for a moment. Then he nods slowly, alert to the brief attention of the crowd as much as to the Turk who let herself be seen for a moment.

Because what else could she be?]

... right. Sorry.

[Not as if he's going to say anything else, really. And, glancing around and then down, uncertain what now, Cloud's gaze is drawn to the coeurl kits again.]

... what're their names?

[That's safe, at least.]

[Smart man]

Iseul and Keiko. Sisters. The one trying to climb your boot is Iseul.

"Well, yes." said Winston. "To both actually."

Even though he was very used to this reaction to those who didn't know about Overwatch, Winston pushed his glasses up on his nose as he looked over the sample questions on the application.

"You dropped a decimal in question five, and question seven is a simple application of Newton's theories, coupled with the energy flow of extra-dimensional energies. The rest is all basic science." He filled out the application and offered it back to Marianne.

"Does this pass muster?"

She glared at the monkey before taking the application and looking it over.

"Who the fuck is Newton, that's Kilm's theories, not..." Marianne looked up at the gorilla, back down at the paper, and then set the paper aside. "So. You're a Streamer?"

( food )

Food was food, right? To someone that hadn't technically had anything like that in the last few years, it was a sight for sore eyes. Sure, he didn't need to eat before but now that Zack does, well... No one would fault him for taking advantage of the situation, right? If they did then Zack would probably just shove one of these festive foods in their face and carry on.

The problem here was that Zack didn't really know where to start. Did he go for something that would definitely constitute as a meal - like a hamburger or something? Or did he just want to head straight towards the stuff that would rot his teeth out. It was so hard to decide!

"Things I wasn't prepared for: this."

Well he wasn't prepared to be back walking around at all, but that wasn't the point, was it?

( wandering around )

To be fair, there was something else that Zack was looking for. Rather, there were people that he happened to be looking for. If he was here then who knows how many others were spit out. Well there was also the fact that if someone he knew caught sight of him, they'd either freeze on the spot or have five hundred questions for him - some that he wouldn't be able to answer.

Thus, while he was milling about, Zack kept his eyes open for anyone. Yes, he was enjoying himself because how could he not by chatting up stall owners ~~no, not flirting thank you~~ and anyone else he happened to cross paths with. He hoped that anyone that would know him he'd find first before they caught sight of him.

( job fair )

It wasn't a bad idea, setting up a corner so that people would be able to look at their options. All things considering, Zack was going to go on in and scope things out himself. In no way did he imagine himself becoming idle and not contributing in some way. The thought of sitting around and doing nothing wasn't how he operated. Zack hated being idle.

Hands hooked behind his head, he wandered from table to table. Just checking things out, for now.

[Weighing his options between his slowly melting ice cream and the novelty (and surprising cuteness) of the coeurl kits at his feet, Cloud hesitated for a moment before he squatted down.

He did, at least, made an attempt to keep the ice scream away from them while trying to pet them, though whether they were more interested in the petting or the ice cream was a good question.]

To get to the ice cream or sharpen her claws?

[Cloud's voice was dry, a tiny smile on his face as he glanced up at Rufus, and this was just a little bit weird, but with what had been happening lately, both before he... died, and after he woke up here, this was tame.]

When Zack passed by an emptier section of the fair, he found himself dragged off towards a white gazebo not far but one very tiny but strong blonde woman with a gun pressed to his lower back to dissuade any ideas of fighting her off. All she said was "the President wants to see you" if Zack tried to get answers.

And sure enough, Rufus was sitting in the gazebo at the card table desk they'd set up for him when he was here. He wasn't wearing his white, but it was so obviously him all the same.

Even if he had a coeurl kit on his lap.

"Zack Fair."

Carnival Games

[Riku was made for fighting. Created to be another perfect SOLDIER. Zack's taught him how to fight with both his hands, swords and materia, but guns?

Not so much.

So that's why one of the shooting gallery games takes his interest. It looks like a challenge, and that's something he doesn't mind encountering. The attendant seems nervous at the sight of what looks like a young Sephiroth, but with something of a grin on his face, he actually hands Riku the gun (not without a 'joke' about killing people of course).

It takes a few moments for him to get into a comfortable position and take aim at the targets. Ten bulls-eyes in a row. After a few seconds more, he pulls the trigger.

And in less than thirty seconds, he's hit every target on point. It might not be surprising to those around him, but to Riku? He actually looks pretty surprised at himself. He didn't think that would happen.]

...Huh, must be beginner's luck.

Speed Dating

[Someone clearly had no idea who the hell they grabbed and shoved into the chair, because there is one very bewildered little clone sitting across from you.

Who, despite years of coaching and 'date advice' and all the information that Zack could provide him, has absolutely no game or talent with talking to people in these situations.

I mean, shit. He's blushing and avoiding eye contact already.]

Uh... h-hi?

Job Fair

[Riku had a couple of reasons for coming to the fair. Getting used to this Edge was one of them. Trying to relax was another. Finding a job wasn't exactly his plan, but when he heard of the fair that was going on, he had to at least see what was around. Their allowance would only last so long, and it would probably be harder for Zack to find work than him.

Problem is... it feels pretty tough to find or get someone interested in you when you look like Sephiroth at first glance. Each time Riku approaches a table, all of a sudden the positions are filled up or he's not given any information or they'll babble on something about "please don't kill me" or wishing death upon him.

Suffice to say, it's tiring as hell.

After what felt like the umpteenth rejection, Riku just ends up leaning against one of the building walls nearby and watches the passersby. All he really needs is a chance. No one just seems to want to give it to him.]

Ice cream. They apparently got it as a treat before I purchased them and you happen to have Iseul's favorite flavor.

[Keiko stays back by Rufus but Iseul is happy to sniff at Cloud and his ice cream]

The moment that he felt that gun press into his back, Zack sighed and rubbed the back of his neck. "You know I think it would take more than that to stop me, dont you?"

Implying that if he really wanted to, Zack was fairly certain he would be able to fight off the woman. Again, if he wanted to. Right now, though, he felt that complying would be beneficial to the both of them... Especially if 'the president' wanted to see him. Thus there was no struggle and, for the most part, Fair was biting his tongue.

The look of surprise he got wasn't unexpected. Zack being here was probably going to be taken as a bad sign, wasn't it? Regardless, he shrugged at Rufus' mention of his name.

"You know, you could've just said please. This invitation came with a cute bow, but c'mon. Overkill much?"

Cloud was getting his second ice cream of the day when he spotted Zack, and wasn't really surprised at all. Why wouldn't he be here? So after he'd paid for the ice scream, he wandered over, a smile already on his face.

It was still such a relief that Zack, at least, had survived, even if he hadn't. Catching up to overhear him, Cloud cocked his head.

"... not prepared for what, Zack?"

And then the lack of a walking stick - though that Zack needed one at all had been a surprise, but less of one after he found out why - and... Zack's still too old, Cloud's sure, but...

"Zack?"

Suddenly, he remembered what his older self had said about his Zack, but maybe he's wrong.

"It wasn't my order. Thank you, Elena."

The Turk nods and shows herself out. Rufus sets his kit down with her sister. "So, am I married?"

That would be more bothersome.

[Isa rolls his eyes and sighs.]

Besides, someone might steal it out of the wagon.

[Biting his lip, amused at the explanation, Cloud looks up again. He hesitates, though, unsure if he really should say something. Shifting on his feet, as awkward as it is while crouched down, Cloud still manages to keep the ice cream out of reach.

For now.]

... would you want me to keep this... um, out of the way, or [a pause to look down at the kit alternating between demanding rubs behind her ears and trying to get at the ice cream, and despite feeling awkward, the smile is back] can she have some?

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